willie_901
Veteran
Rob,
There is no way Apple will reverse it's decision regarding Aperture.
I am sad to hear about your frustrating experience with LR. The last person on earth I would pay attention to is Scott Kelby (well there are others in the WWW photo world who might be a trivially less useful in my view).
I realize you are extremely unhappy with LR. But the thing is, the LR Library simply mirrors the OS X directory structure on your system that existed before you installed LR. You should not have to change or reorganize anything. You only have to use the LR Library once to find the top level Folder for your all your raw files.
There trick is this: after one starts to use LR, and LR has learned where the original image folders/files are on OS X, then image files/Folders should only be moved and, or reorganized using the LR Library (drag and drop as well as renaming is easy to do in the LR Library Panel). If images are moved using the Finder, LR losses track of where they went. LR can find them, but this is just extra work. Importing new raw files requires you to select or create a OS X destination Folder. Again, the LR Import Panel simply mimics any operation one could do with the Finder.
Some people kept rendered copies exported from other programs (TIFFs/JPEGs) in Folders separate from the original raw files. In this case switching to LR is tedious because the LR's workflow is most efficient when all versions are in the same Folder. Instead of using separate Folders for exported images, LR used Collections to virtually organize rendered images. Collections do not affect the OS X Folder/file structure. In the context of LR, the main purpose of exporting images is for digital sharing, printing or using third-party programs to further modify the image. Otherwise one simply creates virtual copies to render a raw image in different ways.
The LR Catalog has nothing to do with the original images. Instead the Catalog is essentially a database that contains every image modification ever executed in LR. The Catalog also contains all the information used for Collections. When LR displays a previously rendered raw it loads the original raw, and applies all the parameters you used to render a virtual image based on the Catalog record.
There is no way Apple will reverse it's decision regarding Aperture.
I am sad to hear about your frustrating experience with LR. The last person on earth I would pay attention to is Scott Kelby (well there are others in the WWW photo world who might be a trivially less useful in my view).
I realize you are extremely unhappy with LR. But the thing is, the LR Library simply mirrors the OS X directory structure on your system that existed before you installed LR. You should not have to change or reorganize anything. You only have to use the LR Library once to find the top level Folder for your all your raw files.
There trick is this: after one starts to use LR, and LR has learned where the original image folders/files are on OS X, then image files/Folders should only be moved and, or reorganized using the LR Library (drag and drop as well as renaming is easy to do in the LR Library Panel). If images are moved using the Finder, LR losses track of where they went. LR can find them, but this is just extra work. Importing new raw files requires you to select or create a OS X destination Folder. Again, the LR Import Panel simply mimics any operation one could do with the Finder.
Some people kept rendered copies exported from other programs (TIFFs/JPEGs) in Folders separate from the original raw files. In this case switching to LR is tedious because the LR's workflow is most efficient when all versions are in the same Folder. Instead of using separate Folders for exported images, LR used Collections to virtually organize rendered images. Collections do not affect the OS X Folder/file structure. In the context of LR, the main purpose of exporting images is for digital sharing, printing or using third-party programs to further modify the image. Otherwise one simply creates virtual copies to render a raw image in different ways.
The LR Catalog has nothing to do with the original images. Instead the Catalog is essentially a database that contains every image modification ever executed in LR. The Catalog also contains all the information used for Collections. When LR displays a previously rendered raw it loads the original raw, and applies all the parameters you used to render a virtual image based on the Catalog record.
